Insole.



J. A. AM ES.

lNSOLE.

AFPLICAT 0N FILED JAN.I5.1913.

Pa tefited Oct. 5, v 1915 welt attaching lip.

Columbus, in the county of Franklin ran era JOSEPH A. AMES, OF GOLUMBUS,'OH5[O, ASSIGNOR '10 COLUMBUS, OHIO.

PATENT was.

THOMAS w. McGovEnn, or

INSOLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

Application filed January 15, 1913. Serial No. 742,120.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JosnPH A. A'MES, a citizen of the United States, res1d1ng at Stateof Ohio, havev invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Insoles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention deals with the production of shoe insoles in a built up article of manufacture primarily in so far as it relates to the formation of a. marginal ridge or inseam lip as an anchorage for the shoe upper and welt.

- In such capacity it is possible to employ a pllable tenacious material, as commercial duck cloth, inexpensive 'and of great durability, resulting in a very flexible finished product with many other advantages over insoles made solely of leather margin 1y skived and split to providean upper-- a (1 While not particularly concerned herein as to the kind of material, or construction of the major portion or body of the insole, it may represent a suitably outlined blank of a single thickness of material or a composite blank of several layers of different kinds of material securely united with or without a veneer finish upon one side, to

.which the ridge forming material is secured and which latter feature forms the basis of this invention.

Therefore an object of the invention to,

provide an insole layer or base member with an inseam ridge secured marginally around said member upon one side thereof comprising a folded tape secured by a marginal line;

Figure 1 is a view in perspective showing insole with the flap or the underside of the lip element partially broken away, and, Fig. 2 is a partial section on line 2-2, Fig. 1.

It will be noted from the detailed deserip and tion of the invention.

- of shoe tion that the invention is more specifically aimed to the production of an improved insole of Goodyear type.

rial substituted, and its manufacture the result of a series of progressive steps which will be followed perfunctory merely toaid in a clear concep- Therefore, initially,

In its manufacture, the use of leather or' similar expensive mate rial may be entirely dispensed with, and a cheaper, more tenacious and flexible matein describing the insole, Y

the various elements are suitably blanked from-the different kinds of material to them the proper outline desired.

In the drawings the body ofthe insole is single thickness of material,

shown-as pf a although it is within;v the aspect of the invention to form blank of several layers of the same or different kinds of material, and its upper we face in either instance may represent a fingive the same as a composite ished surface to eliminate the use of a,

special sock lining in a finished shoe.

The body member 1 marginally is provided" with a foldedtape secured thereto by stitchmg and preferably of an adhesively coated duck material. The duck cloth adhesively coated upon the one side being a commercial product. The coated side of the tape is 10.n-

.gitudinally folded upon itself to adhesively unite the laps, stitching the folded tape to the member 1' and the adhesive, an intermediate layer 5,

ties offers an advantage in such capacity. The folded tape is member 1," with its folded edge outward, by a double marginal row of stitching 3, 4, and

fromthe outermost rowof stitching the folded edge is bent---laterally, forming'a conwhich forms convenience in eharacteristic for its water p'roofing propermarginally secured to the tinuous flap or lip asamarginal anchorage for inseam stitching, inseeuring the welt and shoe upperthereto. The lip thus formed is of equal thickness in cross section,

and pronounced. affording very easy-and convenient tracking of the inseam sewingmachine, cludes many other advantages in the process manufacture, over the useof the customary types of insole. .It increases the durability and flexibility of the shoe, and comforts the wearer, for yields to compressing, flat dispositiomso that after inseam stitching the l p can be moothed Without injury resulting in an even seam, and ink the lip readily if' due to its-normally.

to the stitching and with no raised portions from said body member at said line of 1 perceptible in a finished shoe. stitches to form an upstanding marginal lip. Havmg described my invention, I In testimony whereoi I afiix mysignature claim in presence of two Witnesses.

An insole comprising a body member and a folded tape secured to the margin of said insole by a. line of stitches passing through Witnesses: I the two thicknesses-of said tape, the folded C. F. VINCENT, edge of said tape being bent laterally away WALTER E. L. Boon.

JOSEPH A. AMES.

Melee e; this patent; may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, 1). 0.." 

